Greentext

If singleplayer:

A complex transmog system that has gacha style of different 'currencies' (shit tier crafting ingredients) and layers of abstraction, some of which functionally require being subbed to a battlepass which allows you to purchase some necessary key items to the transmog process only after you've done all your monotonous dailies for 3 weeks without missing a single one.

If multiplayer:

'Radiant' style quests revolving around escorting a low health, brain dead at path finding npc, which walks slower than your run speed but faster than your walk speed, through a PvP combat zone, who frequently has random mental breakdowns and must be reassured everything will be alright through a 22 step dialog tree process, which is largely randomized everytime, in order to keep them moving.

You and the npc can be killed during conversation segments, which you cannot exit from at whim, you must complete the dialog tree successfully to regain control of your character and exit the 'cinematic dialog' mode.

MHW was a game desperately in need of a paper manual.

Flashing up pages full of text during the tutorial is flat out obnoxious.

Instead of walking/moving with a your joysticks, you use them to point a fucking mouse cursor and click on the ground where you want to go, like that shitty walking dead game on playstation

Choices once made (purchasing armor) cannot be undone later. Buy a half-assed weapon in round 1, fill that slot forever and never be able to throw it away later.

There's a skip button in every cinematic but it does nothing.

As someone who hates souls games, make sure there are undodgeable attacks by enemies. Example, you’re walking past a wall and something attacks and kills you from behind. Also, make sure there are huge bosses with ambiguous hit boxes and indeterminable strike locations so dodging is weird and dumb.

Mind you, Monster Hunter World forces every player of a hunting squad to view an unskippable story mission cutscene in their own hosted instance before being able to join another player's session of the same mission.

Lots of watching the cutscene in a solo hunt, abandoning the mission, then joining on a friend.

Game is not open-source.

Does not run fluently on a modern computer in 2024.

Requires internet connectivity even though single-player.

Enemies get way harder as you progress through the game and upgrade your weapons, making all these upgrades essentially useless.

Earned levels increase your character's size permanently. As your character grows, it can no longer sneak into small tunnels to catch precious loot.

You have to spend your earned money after every round. You cannot save it to learn what skills you actually need and then bulk-buy later.

When you die you have to re-start from the beginning. From the very beginning.